457 Quotes by Clive Barker

..which should teach you something about this world. That it's a place where whatever you work for and care about is bound to be taken away from you sooner or later, and there isn't a thing you can do about it.

I dreamed I spoke in another's language, I dreamed I lived in another's skin, I dreamed I was my own beloved, I dreamed I was a tiger's kin. I dreamed that Eden lived inside me, And when I breathed a garden came, I dreamed I knew all of Creation, I dreamed I knew the Creator's name. I dreamed--and this dream was the finest-- That all I dreamed was real and true, And we would live in joy forever, You in me, and me in you.

Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is.

Midian is where the monsters go.

Flesh could not keep its glamour, nor eyes their sheen. They would go to nothing soon. But monsters are forever.

There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.

We’re both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we’re the same: both Thieves of Always.

You must be careful with kindness. It’s usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.

Yes, fantastic fiction can be intricately woven into the texture of our daily lives, addressing important issues in fabulist form. But it also serves to release us for a time from the definitions that confine our daily selves; to unplug us from a world that wounds and disappoints us, allowing us to venture into places of magic and transformation.